Konrad Conner, head brewer at Redwood Lodge, has to come up with a different theme for each month’s Beer Appreciation Society gathering at the Mundy Township brewery/restaurant.

In a moment of great enlightenment, Conner last month chose to pay homage to Michigan’s female brewers and brewery owners.

“I found out there are 13 women in Michigan who either are in charge of brewing at their particular locations or who are part of ownership,” he said.

I choose to be impressed by that number even though it reflects less than a 7 percent distaff presence at the state’s 88 breweries and brewing restaurants. The percentage is bound to grow.

If any more proof is needed that the female sex is superior, realize that women’s interest in beer is growing in direct proportion to the steadily growing quality of American beer.

Nothing short of a revolution has occurred in the industry in the past 30 years. Jim Koch with Boston Brewing Co. (Samuel Adams) and Fritz Maytag with Anchor Steam got things started.

Craft brewing gained a foothold on the West Coast and Colorado and then spread in every direction.

In Michigan, laws allowing brewpubs and favoring small-scale brewing were enacted in 1991-92.

The flagship beers of Anheuser-Busch, Miller and Coors still account for 98 percent of sales in the state. But those sales are slipping despite the millions spent on marketing.

At the same time, sales of Michigan craft beer is growing by double-digit percentages every year.

Sarah Sidelko of Motor City Brewing Co. in Detroit said she worked there without pay for half a year to start. Her interest in brewing starting with gardening, bread-making and vegetable fermentation such as with sauerkraut and kimchee.

“We’re getting into hard cider, mead and perry,” Sidelko said.

(Mead is honey wine and perry is fermented pear juice.)

Just down the road in Fenton, Ginny Sharrow and her husband, Matt, have seven house beers on tap at the Fenton Winery and Brewery, 1545 N. Leroy St.

They started as one of those make-your-own-wine franchises. That ended when they applied for a brewing license.

Sidelko and Sharrow were among the six beer femmes who answered Conners’ invite.

All flirt with the age of 30 except E.T. Crowe of Wolverine State Brewing Co. in Ann Arbor and Rene Greff of Arbor Brewing Co. and the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti.

Greff has been at it long enough to be a great mentor any of the younger ladies and anyone with thoughts of getting involved.

If any of those who attended Redwood’s May beer fest had any doubts about women’s historical role in brewing, they were dispelled by Kayla Walker, a Redwood server and confirmed beer wonk.

“Making beer and making bread went hand-in-hand in ancient Babylonia and Mesopotamia right through the Middle Ages,” Walker said. The monks in Europe gained the upper hand and men got all the jobs once the Industrial Revolution started, she added.

We happened to be in Bellaire last month for Shorts Brewing Co.’s seventh anniversary party. At least 40 percent of the celebrants were women.

Women are flocking to the annual World Beer Expo in Frankenmuth, where Bud Light, Miller Light and Coors are nowhere to be found.

Craft beer equals or beats out wine as an adult beverage to match with food. Those attending Redwood’s July 11 beer assemblage can decide which tastes best with various cheeses.

The beer revolution is great fun and something for men and women to enjoy together.